The
synod committee that excommunicated the outspoken theologian and former Disy MP and MEP, had cited his "heretical views on Orthodox faith and teaching" as the reason he was thrown out of the church.
Bulgariaas Patriarch Neofit and the members of the Holy
Synod were prepared to receive Pope Francis for a meeting at the Holy
Synod on 5th of May.
In a six-hour session, the young Anglicans were given a crash course in the workings of
synod and the rules that govern it, and encouraged to take their place at the table as members on an equal standing with even the most experienced
synod veteran.
A number of
synod delegates reported that at
synods in the past, curial cardinals would go around telling the bishops what topics could not be discussed.
According to the Catholic News Service, twelve members of the ordinary council of the
Synod of Bishops, three from each continent with Asia and Oceania counted as one, were elected by the
synod father at the end of the recent assembly in Rome, Italy.
The remainder of this article documents the varied ways the Northwest
Synod of Wisconsin has lived out the ideas and challenges Dr.
Added Landon Whitsitt, executive for the
Synod of Mid-America: "We're talking about reimagining the church and how it engages in mission --to create structures that enable us to be more missional at all levels of the church."
The
synod was called to deal with the doctrinal position of the "Remonstrance to the States of Holland" (1610) and the Contra-Remonstrance of the Reformed opposition (1611).
In the present volume, Orobator has assembled reflections of experts on African Christianity on the theme of the Second
Synod of Bishops, Special Assembly for Africa, which was held in Rome in October 2009.
"I felt called to youth ministry long before I knew such a thing even existed in our denomination," said Audrey Cameron, currently the camping and youth consultant for the
Synod of the Atlantic Provinces.
They refused to do so, putting off a decision on the matter until their own National General
Synod in 2007.
Speaking before a packed General
Synod meeting, she said Ugandan-born Dr John Sentamu, the current Bishop for Birmingham, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, would be carrying a 'heavy burden' of responsibility over the next few years.